BRAZIL W EEK, OXFORD, MARCH 2012 MONDAY 5 TUESDAY 6 WEDNESDAY 7 THURSDAY 8 FRIDAY 9 SATURDAY 10 9.30am Latin American “Third”

Cinema Conference Keynote speaker: Michael Chanan Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College

2pm

Literature: “The Brazilian Belle Époque” Room 2 Taylor Institution

Latin American “Third” Cinema Conference Keynote speaker: María Delgado. Room 3 Taylor Institution

4pm

FILM PREMIÈRE “Pero Vaz de Caminha’s Brazil” (short) “Captains of the Sands” (feature) Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College

Choir Concert Classical Brazilian Choral Music Main Hall Taylor Institution

5pm

Round Table: “Brazil in the Spotlight” Robin Lustig (BBC), Tim Power (Latin American Centre) Main Hall Taylor Institution

Lecture: “The People’s Palace Project” (art for social justice in Brazil and the UK) Paul Heritage Room 2 Taylor Institution

FILM “5 x Favela: Agora por nós mesmos” Introduced by director: Luciano Vidigal Main Hall Taylor Institution

6pm

7pm

FILM “Only When I Dance” Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College

FILM “Kiss of the Spider Woman”, Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College

FILM “The Knife” Dorfman Centre, St. Peter’s College

NB: ALL FILMS HAVE ENGLISH SUBTITLES. All events are free, but please register for the Film Conference at: http://bit.ly/third-cinema and to sing in the choir, please register at: http://bit.ly/brazil-week-choir

PROGRAMME MONDAY 5 MARCH 5PM TAYLOR INSTITUTION (MAIN HALL) ROUND TABLE: BRAZIL IN THE SPOTLIGHT

Suddenly it seems as though everybody is talking about Brazil. There’s an economic boom, a new female President, the country’s going to host the World Cup and the Olympic Games… what’s going on? Guest speakers Robin Lustig, who was in Brazil a year ago and presented a series of reports on Radio 4, will describe his impressions of the country and its economic situation. Tim Power, from Oxford University’s Latin American Centre, will talk about the challenges facing President Dilma Rousseff and a country under the spotlight.

7PM SHULMAN AUDITORIUM, QUEEN’S COLLEGE FILM SHOWING: “ONLY WHEN I DANCE”

Directed by Beadie Finzi (2009), 78 min. Also known as “the Brazilian Billy Elliot”, this documentary tells the extraordinary story of two teenagers, Irlan and Isabella, chasing a seemingly impossible dream: to dance their way out of the violent and dangerous outskirts of Rio to join a professional ballet company.

TUESDAY 6 MARCH 2PM Room 2, Taylor Institution, St. Giles’ Literature of the Brazilian Belle Époque

Vinícius Mariano de Carvalho (Åarhus): ‘João do Rio - modern Flaneur in a pre-modern city’ Bob Oakley (Birmingham): ‘Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma and an Anatomy of Dictatorship’ Felipe Correa (Wolfson): ‘Lima Barreto the Journalist-Writer’

5PM Room 2, Taylor Institution, St. Giles’ Lecture Professor Paul Heritage (QMUL)

Paul Heritage will talk about the ‘People’s Palace Project’ which is an arts organisation established to advance the practice and understanding of art for social justice. He has collaborated with groups such as AfroReggae and developed projects within disadvantaged communities in Brazil and the UK. In 2004 he directed Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Measure for Measure on location in two favelas, with the opening performance taking place on a border contested by rival drug factions.

http://www.peoplespalace.org.uk/ 7PM Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College FILM SHOWING: “KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN” [O BEIJO DA MULHER ARANHA]

Directed by Hector Babenco (1985), 120 min. Starring: William Hurt, Raul Julia and Sonia Braga. Luis Molina and Valentin Arregui are cellmates. Molina has been imprisoned for immoral behaviour and Valentin is a political prisoner. To escape reality and help pass the time, Molina narrates the plots of romantic movies with glamorous female stars, like the Spider Woman. Their relationship, at first antagonistic, grows as they find they have more in common than they thought. Adapted from the novel by Manuel Puig, the story has also been made into a play and a Broadway musical.

WEDNESDAY 7 MARCH 4PM Shulman Auditorium, Queen’s College FILM SHOWING: “PERO VAZ DE CAMINHA’S BRAZIL” [O BRASIL DE PERO VAZ DE CAMINHA] (short)

Directed by Bruno Laet (2011), 18 min Starring: Isnard Manso Brazil by Pero Vaz de Caminha (“caminha” is Pero Vaz’s last name but also means “walk”) is a documentary that traces a parallel between two Brazilian periods, at the time of the discovery and the present, i.e. more than five hundred years time span. It does not include interviews or a reenactment of historical facts, only a contextualization of the universe of Pero Vaz (Isnard Manso). The focus is on the narration of the letter, performed by Ruy Guerra, juxtaposed with diverse contemporary images, either emphasizing what is described or going in a diametrically opposing direction. The song Fado Tropical, by Chico Buarque and Ruy Guerra, is presented in the opening and the closing of the documentary, both in its original version and in a version by Arnaldo Antunes especially recorded for the film.

4.20 FILM PREMIÈRE: “CAPITÃES DE AREIA” [CAPTAINS OF THE SANDS] (feature) Directed by Cecília Amado and Guy Gonçalves (2011), 96 min

Starring: Jean Luis Amorim, Ana Graciela and Roberio Lima. Music by Carlinhos Brown. Based on the well-loved novel by Jorge Amado and directed by his granddaughter, this film tells the story of the lives of a group of street kids living by their wits to stay alive, in 1950s Salvador de Bahia. http://www.capitaesdaareia.com.br/

7PM Dorfman Centre, St Peter’s College FILM SHOWING: “THE KNIFE” [A GRANDE ARTE]

Directed by Walter Salles (1991), 96 min Starring: Peter Coyote, Tchéky Karyo and Amanda Pays. Walter Salles’ first feature film is an adaptation of Rubem Fonseca’s thriller A Grande Arte. An American photographer in Rio de Janeiro becomes involved in the world of "knife culture" when he sets out to find the killer of one of his models.

THURSDAY 8 MARCH 4PM MAIN HALL, TAYLOR INSTITUTION, ST. GILES’ A CHORAL CONCERT OF BRAZILIAN MUSIC CONDUCTED BY VINÍCIUS MARIANO DE CARVALHO

Students from Åarhus and Oxford will sing some Brazilian classical choral music (Villa-Lobos) as well as some bossa nova tunes.

Anyone interested in joining the choir, register your interest at bit.ly/brazil-week-choir Rehearsals will be arranged during Brazil Week. 5PM FILM: “5 X FAVELA: AGORA POR NÓS MESMOS” [5 X FAVELA: NOW BY OURSELVES]

Directed by Manaíra Carneiro & Wagner Novais, Rodrigo Felha & Cacau Amaral, Luciano Vidigal, Cadu Barcelos and Luciana Bezerra (2010), 96 min The project ‘5 x Favela’ gathered over 200 young people from Rio's favelas to attend workshops in filmmaking techniques. The goal was to create, as a collective, a feature film consisting of five stories that reflect different facets of the daily lives of residents of these communities, with the promise to avoid stereotypical representations and instead focus on friendship, family relationships, achievements and the unexpected events that bind people together. The film will be introduced by Luciano Vidigal, who directed one of the segments and acts in another, is a member of the theatre group ‘Nós do Morro’ and has appeared in films like ‘City of Men’, ‘My Name isn’t Johnny’ and ‘Elite Squad 2’. http://www.nosdomorro.com.br/ Luciano will be taking part in the film conference “Latin American ‘Third’ Cinema and its Legacies” on 9 and 10 March.

FRIDAY 9 MARCH 2PM – 7PM ROOM 3, TAYLOR INSTITUTION, ST. GILES’

CONFERENCE: LATIN AMERICAN “THIRD” CINEMA AND ITS LEGACIES A two-day colloquium at the University of Oxford organised by María Donapetry, Claire Williams and Roberta Gregoli Keynote speakers include María Delgado (QMUL) and Michael Chanan (Roehampton). For a full programme, visit: http://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/events#la

All welcome, but please register at bit.ly/third-cinema

The organisers are grateful to the Sub-Faculties of Portuguese and Spanish, University of Oxford, the Ministério de Relações Estrangeiras, Brazilian Government, The Embassy of Brazil in the UK, Tabocca Produções Artísticas